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Boat designs

Wooden boat plans and kits, with the build logs attached

Boats built from plans or a kit, by the people building them. Pick one to see every build log of it, how long they actually took, and where the hours went.

1,600+ boat plans and kits from 94 designers are listed here in one place: Glen-L Marine, Chesapeake Light Craft, Devlin, Dudley Dix, John Welsford, Iain Oughtred, Bateau, Benford and the rest. Every design page carries the specs, where the plans or the kit come from, and every build log anyone here has kept of that boat, so you can see what it actually took before you buy the drawings.

Filter by who drew it, by what it is (kayaks, canoes, skiffs, dories, dinghies, sailboats, runabouts and cruisers), by length, or by how it goes together: stitch and glue, glued lapstrake, strip plank, plywood on frame, skin on frame. Most of the catalog is plywood, which is also where a first boat should start.

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Design Plans from Type LOA Construction Logs
Squirt Glen-L Marine Power 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood on frame 2
Passagemaker Take-Apart Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 7″ (3.53 m) lapstrake plywood 1
Polliwog 8 Devlin Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) stitch and glue 1
Tiny Titan Glen-L Marine Power 8′ 2″ (2.49 m) plywood on frame 1
Ultralight Dinghy Chesapeake Light Craft Row 6′ 0″ (1.83 m) stitch and glue 1
10-Foot Little Auk Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) strip planked 0
10' 2" Lawton Tender Newfound Woodworks Row 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) strip planked 0
10' Garvey Jolle Boatkits Power 3.05 m (10′ 0″) stitch and glue 0
10' Jolle Boatkits Row 3.08 m (10′ 1″) stitch and glue 0
10' Ruderboot Boatkits Row 3.12 m (10′ 3″) stitch and glue 0
11 ft 4 in Sunrise Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 11′ 4″ (3.45 m) plywood 0
11 ft Night Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) plywood 0
11 ft Oregon Peapod Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
11 ft Sailing Dinghy with Transom Stern Benford Design Group Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) Airex cored fibreglass or cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
11-Foot Little Auk Chesapeake Light Craft Paddle 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) strip planked 0
11' 4" Wee Lassie Newfound Woodworks Paddle 11′ 4″ (3.45 m) strip planked 0
11' 9" Otter Newfound Woodworks Paddle 11′ 9″ (3.58 m) strip planked 0
11' Jolle Boatkits Sail 3.6 m (11′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
11' Jolle mit flachem Boden Boatkits Row 3.4 m (11′ 2″) stitch and glue 0
3 Piece Boat Grandpa's Archive Other 7′ 0″ (2.13 m) plywood on frame 0
3-In-1 Stevenson Projects Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
7 ft 3 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 7′ 3″ (2.21 m) plywood 0
7 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 7′ 6″ (2.29 m) plywood 0
8 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 8′ 6″ (2.59 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
8 ft Double Ended Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) solid fibreglass 0
8 ft Portland Yawlboat Sailing Dinghy Benford Design Group Sail 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) cold moulded or solid fibreglass or lapstrake 0
8' Entlein Boatkits Row 2.42 m (7′ 11″) glued lapstrake plywood 0
9 ft 6 in Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 9′ 6″ (2.9 m) lapstrake 0
9 ft Double Ended Dinghy Benford Design Group Row 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) cold moulded 0
Acorn Skiff Iain Oughtred Row 11′ 9″ (3.58 m) glued lapstrake plywood 0
Ady-J Grandpa's Archive Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood on frame 0
Aerowood 310 SUP Modern Wooden Boat Paddle 3.1 m (10′ 2″) plywood 0
Alli8 Sailing Pram Duck Trap Woodworking Sail 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) plywood 0
Amphora Stevenson Projects Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood 0
Argie 10 Dudley Dix Yacht Design Sail 10′ 2″ (3.1 m) stitch and glue 0
Baby Baggie BCA Demco Sail 3.04 m (10′ 0″) strip planked 0
Baby Boat Cradle Manta Marine Design Other 1.2 m (3′ 11″) stitch and glue 0
Backpack Boat Butler Projects Row 5′ 0″ (1.52 m) plywood 0
Bebop Grandpa's Archive Power 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) plywood on frame 0
Bella 10 Skiff Devlin Row 9′ 8″ (2.96 m) stitch and glue 0
Bella 12 Devlin Row 11′ 7″ (3.54 m) stitch and glue 0
Bevin's Skiff Chesapeake Light Craft Row 11′ 8″ (3.56 m) plywood 0
Biloxi Dinghy Grandpa's Archive Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) n/a 0
Black Fly 8 Geodesic Airolite Boats Row 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) skin on frame 0
Breeze Plyboat Paddle 3 m (9′ 10″) stitch and glue 0
Broadbill 11 Devlin Power 10′ 8″ (3.25 m) stitch and glue 0
Buckboard Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) plywood on frame 0
Bull's Eye Glen-L Marine Sail 11′ 0″ (3.35 m) stitch and glue 0
Bullet Glen-L Marine Power 11′ 3″ (3.43 m) plywood on frame 0
Cardboard Boat The Cardboard Boat Book Paddle 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) n/a 0
Cat Boat 12 Bateau Sail 11′ 11″ (3.63 m) stitch and glue 0
Catspaw Pram B&B Yacht Designs Row 6′ 6″ (1.98 m) n/a 0
Centerfold Glen-L Marine Row 7′ 10″ (2.39 m) plywood 0
Class AB Glen-L Marine Power 10′ 6″ (3.2 m) plywood on frame 0
Class J Glen-L Marine Power 9′ 0″ (2.74 m) plywood on frame 0
Classic 10 Geodesic Airolite Boats Row 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) skin on frame 0
CLC Kayak/Canoe SailRig Chesapeake Light Craft Sail 10′ 0″ (3.05 m) plywood 0
Cocktail Class Racer Chesapeake Light Craft Power 8′ 0″ (2.44 m) stitch and glue 0
Colibri Plyboat Row 2.3 m (7′ 7″) stitch and glue 0
Corsair 11 Bateau Sail 10′ 9″ (3.28 m) stitch and glue 0

Boat not listed? Start your log and type its name and it gets added to the catalog. Specs here are community-maintained; check them against the designer’s own drawings before you cut anything.